I’m still disappointed that 27 never managed to get on this list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2-7CqYFi64

It did the same thing for me in LibreWolf, but worked in Falkon.

“Are you a pole vaulter?” “No, I am a German, but how did you know my name was Walter?”

in other news, the North Pole is colder than the Indonesian rainforest

not very accurate, you can still install Windows graphically, and you could install Linux either on a console or with a GUI both in 2005 and now

I’m old enough to remember a time when .docx was new, in my childhood Word saved as .doc. A standard that’s been replaced once can be replaced again.

I’ve used Markdown and AsciiDoc, I know there’s also something similar called reStructuredText. You can export from them to HTML and then apply any CSS you want to that, including 14-point typeface or any precise margins you want. I see no reason why a user-friendly interface to Markdown or AsciiDoc or reStructuredText couldn’t be made to work for lawyers.

But of course if the only problem you’re trying to solve is that docx is a binary format and doesn’t work well with git, then there is always this: https://superuser.com/questions/1917024/can-we-convert-simple-docx-files-into-some-single-flat-ooxml-file

2005: entire websites written in Flash

2025: entire websites written in SVG

I haven’t read about this before.

It’s interesting that (judging from the screenshot), they even tried to recreate the Apple menu, which on macOS isn’t a start menu after all; but I do wonder what is the way to start apps in this interface? Did they try to clone macOS in that regard to and do that through the “Finder” (probably Dolphin)?

Obviously the way the previous commenter worded it would infringe on the platforms’ free speech, it’s only workable if we replace “harmful” with “illegal” (e.g. libelous).

I post a lot and don’t usually get hateful insults, in fact most of what I post gets no comments at all.

The way I find most things I post is literally just that I repost them from my Mastodon feed.

I still remember how in ~2010, when some social benefits were cut here in Austria as part of an austerity program, I read a lot (!) of talking points that the Koralm railway is a way bigger waste of money and they should cancel it because it’s useless, not those social benefits…

I haven’t been hearing anything about that lately somehow.

This is a complex issue and both of the comments above are way oversimplifying it…

Lots of governments around the world are nowadays claiming that their laws apply to all or many websites that can be accessed in their borders. Whether they can enforce this if the website has no physical assets in the country is a very different question. They could arrest their operators when they enter their countries (as happened to Pavel Durov), or they could geoblock websites, or… here are some starting points for further research:

• https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/88635/can-the-uk-government-do-anything-about-a-foreign-media-platform-rooting-for-civ
• https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/20490/what-politically-can-be-done-to-compel-global-compliance-by-google
• https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/05/when-trolls-take-on-tyrants-4chan-and-kiwi-farms-sue-the-uk-over-extraterritorial-censorship/

Assuming “EU” means “European Union” (the acronym can stand for other things too): if you don’t put “Europe” or “European Union” in the title or sidebar, no one who searches for these things is ever going to find this community.

also there is already [email protected]

unfortunately this is mostly an instance of https://xkcd.com/1102/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

IRC still exists, the closest FOSS IRC client to mIRC is KVIrc.

The closest thing to a modernized IRC is Matrix.

Me neither. Anyone know what advantages or disadvantages it has compared to Shotcut?

The uplifting news is that even someone in the European commission (unexpectedly) prefers the less privacy-invasive version the parliament wants, not the one the council wants.

I remember reading that Loops (? - may be wrong about which one) does the same thing, only displaying statuses with videos in them. I have not, so far, seen anyone claim that that is a bad thing, and frankly don’t agree that it is. If we can’t do that, then we can never have specialized platforms built on ActivityPub, e.g. platforms only for videos or for photos, etc., and that would severely limit what we can do with it.

In GTA 5, get on a train, get a wanted level, try to keep the wanted level for an entire round-trip around the map, then try to escape the wanted level, all while staying on the train and surviving.

(it’s been a few years since I tried this and don’t remember if those were the exact rules, but they were something like this)